Anyone I meet knows I am completely taken with UK music, like a few international bands and have a minimal tolerance for American music.
There are a few exceptions
The National
Scissors For Lefty
The Blood Arm
Every Move A Pictures
The Eames Era
Locksley
The Spinto Band
Cold War Kids
We Are Scientists
MC Lars
Ambulance LTD
Aberdeen City
Ra Ra Riot
The Little Ones
Tapes N'Tapes
Interpol
Be your Own Pet
The Dandy Warhols
Pixies (and spinoffs)
Showing posts with label Cold War Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War Kids. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club 30th March 2007 Middle East
Wow, how often do you get three really good bands in one single concert.
Delta Spirit are Cold War Kid's buddies even if they are unsigned. They do have an EP out but beware if you buy it online it is $7, buy it at the gig and get charged $10. Goodwill seems to be a concept that these guys dont understand though they did respond when I sniped about this.
---------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Delta Spirit
Date: Mar 31, 2007 11:18 PM
hello jane
i am very sorry that you felt that you were taken advantage of. in reality we are a very young band on tour with absolutely no support. we have no label. we get payed $100 a night. this usually barely pays for gas. please don't think that i am complaining... we are so happy and blessed to be on this tour, but the reality is the only way that we could afford to do it is to make money on merch. no one buys our shirts (which are $5 cheaper than cold war kids and tokyo police club's are) cause no one has heard of us. so we survive off of cd sales. considering that cold war kids cd is $15 and the fact that it is hard to always make change we decided to sell our eps for $10. we did not force anyone to buy them and to be honest you are the first to complain. also just so you know you can buy the cold war cd for like $8 at best buy as opposed to $15 at shows. i hope you understand. things will hopefully change and we will be able to afford to sell them for less, but at this point that $10 is the difference between me sitting at home or being on tour living my dreams, so thank you for your support and once again i'm sorry that you felt taken advantage of. i hope this gives you peace.
jonathan
----------------- Original Message -----------------
Point is they do play good music and probably do need supporting despite this. One track had Cold War Kids joining them on stage.
Tokyo Police Club, I have such a soft spot for these young kids. sound was horrible soundman should have been slapped. They played A lesson in crime and I think Box, no set list but distorted angular rough (though not as roughly brilliant as when tehy supported Art Brut)Things would have to be hugely more horrible before I call this anything less than stellar.
The main act Cold War Kids with the religous tint i so want to dislike this bunch of ugly preachers BUT I can't. Third time I have seen these guys and I love the act more and more.
SetList
We used to vacation
Passing the hat
Rubidoux
St. John (with TPC and DS)
Robbers
Hospital Beds
God Make up your mind
Tell Me In the Morning
Every Valley is not a lake
Quiet Please
They also came on and did two other tracks as an encore.
St John was amazing, the stage was full of everyone bashing things all over the place, chaotic satisfying frenetic - I cant imagine ever seeing this being done better. At some point I will try to get some shot up on Flickr.
Yes they live up to the hype, so glad I was in at the ground floor.
The guitarist seemed to appreciate my dancing grining at me (yes It is true I wasnt hallucinating) and me and Peter were the only two he shook hands with.
Delta Spirit are Cold War Kid's buddies even if they are unsigned. They do have an EP out but beware if you buy it online it is $7, buy it at the gig and get charged $10. Goodwill seems to be a concept that these guys dont understand though they did respond when I sniped about this.
---------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Delta Spirit
Date: Mar 31, 2007 11:18 PM
hello jane
i am very sorry that you felt that you were taken advantage of. in reality we are a very young band on tour with absolutely no support. we have no label. we get payed $100 a night. this usually barely pays for gas. please don't think that i am complaining... we are so happy and blessed to be on this tour, but the reality is the only way that we could afford to do it is to make money on merch. no one buys our shirts (which are $5 cheaper than cold war kids and tokyo police club's are) cause no one has heard of us. so we survive off of cd sales. considering that cold war kids cd is $15 and the fact that it is hard to always make change we decided to sell our eps for $10. we did not force anyone to buy them and to be honest you are the first to complain. also just so you know you can buy the cold war cd for like $8 at best buy as opposed to $15 at shows. i hope you understand. things will hopefully change and we will be able to afford to sell them for less, but at this point that $10 is the difference between me sitting at home or being on tour living my dreams, so thank you for your support and once again i'm sorry that you felt taken advantage of. i hope this gives you peace.
jonathan
----------------- Original Message -----------------
Point is they do play good music and probably do need supporting despite this. One track had Cold War Kids joining them on stage.
Tokyo Police Club, I have such a soft spot for these young kids. sound was horrible soundman should have been slapped. They played A lesson in crime and I think Box, no set list but distorted angular rough (though not as roughly brilliant as when tehy supported Art Brut)Things would have to be hugely more horrible before I call this anything less than stellar.
The main act Cold War Kids with the religous tint i so want to dislike this bunch of ugly preachers BUT I can't. Third time I have seen these guys and I love the act more and more.
SetList
We used to vacation
Passing the hat
Rubidoux
St. John (with TPC and DS)
Robbers
Hospital Beds
God Make up your mind
Tell Me In the Morning
Every Valley is not a lake
Quiet Please
They also came on and did two other tracks as an encore.
St John was amazing, the stage was full of everyone bashing things all over the place, chaotic satisfying frenetic - I cant imagine ever seeing this being done better. At some point I will try to get some shot up on Flickr.
Yes they live up to the hype, so glad I was in at the ground floor.
The guitarist seemed to appreciate my dancing grining at me (yes It is true I wasnt hallucinating) and me and Peter were the only two he shook hands with.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
More concerts coming to Boston
So coming soon I have
Paolo Nutini at Paradise Rock Club Feb 3rd
Protokoll at Great Scott Feb 9th
Lily Allen at Axis Feb 18th - Wow this sold out within 3 days!
Rumor! Razorlight Middle East 25th Feb
MC Lars at The Middle East Upstairs Feb 27th
Bright Eyes at Somerville Theatre Feb 28th
The Young Knives at Great Scott March 4th - so psyched about this one
And of course
SXSW March 14th thru 18th
The View at T.T. the Bear's Place March 22nd - hey guys prove yourselves worth the hype
Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club at The Middle East Downstairs March 30th
Kaiser Chiefs at Avalon April 9th (grotty support acts not like the UK)
The Kooks at Paradise Rock Club May 13th
OK that should keep me busy - and I have tickets in hand for all but two of these!
Paolo Nutini at Paradise Rock Club Feb 3rd
Protokoll at Great Scott Feb 9th
Lily Allen at Axis Feb 18th - Wow this sold out within 3 days!
Rumor! Razorlight Middle East 25th Feb
MC Lars at The Middle East Upstairs Feb 27th
Bright Eyes at Somerville Theatre Feb 28th
The Young Knives at Great Scott March 4th - so psyched about this one
And of course
SXSW March 14th thru 18th
The View at T.T. the Bear's Place March 22nd - hey guys prove yourselves worth the hype
Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club at The Middle East Downstairs March 30th
Kaiser Chiefs at Avalon April 9th (grotty support acts not like the UK)
The Kooks at Paradise Rock Club May 13th
OK that should keep me busy - and I have tickets in hand for all but two of these!
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Cold War Kids Redux
So a quick recap of last night. Three bands - Foreign Born , Swearing at Motorists and Cold War Kids.
I enjoyed Foreign Born and have added them to my myspace friends to keep up with bulletins, more laid back bluesy percussive than my normal indie stuff but variety is the spice of life. Swearing at Motorists? YUK! Absolutely dreadful, some stoner up on stage playing music badly with multiple references to wouldn't it be wonderful if we gave him drugs. Earplugs were in for this one and I still heard too much.
Cold War Kids, seems like The Futureheads did us a favor, we ended up with a good 50 minute set where their music shined. Again more garage more blues influenced, and cute use of percussion but great to dance to and definitely worth stretching the musical boundaries for.
Oh and straight from the band when you find that hidden track its called Serpent versus the Gospel.
On a side note, DJ Carbo played tracks in between bands most of the night playing a new Cribs demo. Very wordy, very good and yes it has the cribs signature notes in it.
Carbo, sad not to get the demos from you but I admire your ethics.
So Albert Hammond, Jr tomorrow at TT The Bears, its a small venue so worthwhile trying to see what the gig is like.
I enjoyed Foreign Born and have added them to my myspace friends to keep up with bulletins, more laid back bluesy percussive than my normal indie stuff but variety is the spice of life. Swearing at Motorists? YUK! Absolutely dreadful, some stoner up on stage playing music badly with multiple references to wouldn't it be wonderful if we gave him drugs. Earplugs were in for this one and I still heard too much.
Cold War Kids, seems like The Futureheads did us a favor, we ended up with a good 50 minute set where their music shined. Again more garage more blues influenced, and cute use of percussion but great to dance to and definitely worth stretching the musical boundaries for.
Oh and straight from the band when you find that hidden track its called Serpent versus the Gospel.
On a side note, DJ Carbo played tracks in between bands most of the night playing a new Cribs demo. Very wordy, very good and yes it has the cribs signature notes in it.
Carbo, sad not to get the demos from you but I admire your ethics.
So Albert Hammond, Jr tomorrow at TT The Bears, its a small venue so worthwhile trying to see what the gig is like.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Robbers, Cowards and Little Man Tate
Last week I heard great news that Little Man Tate are coming to Boston. Checking my Last.fm page I realize I have been listening to these guys since the first week in April. Little Man Tate are a newish band from Sheffield that have been together for about a year. They have catchy poppy little tunes full of sexual innuendo, sorry if that offends you it just amuses me. In the way of all things Net they have an obligatory myspace page and a demo download page .
I have been emailing anyone who I think may publicize this gig. Boston is often left off the list of first time US gigs and so anyone who bothers to come I hope gets support.
On a newer note Cold War Kids headline Allston's Great Scotts on Saturday night. I saw these guys play support for Tapes N' Tapes at the Middle East this Spring and enjoyed the music. This was supposed to be The Futureheads at the Paradise with Cold War Kids supporting until Barry got Tendinitis and The Futureheads cancelled.
Now we get the chance to see this small interesting band in a venue which I am starting to love.
I have been emailing anyone who I think may publicize this gig. Boston is often left off the list of first time US gigs and so anyone who bothers to come I hope gets support.
On a newer note Cold War Kids headline Allston's Great Scotts on Saturday night. I saw these guys play support for Tapes N' Tapes at the Middle East this Spring and enjoyed the music. This was supposed to be The Futureheads at the Paradise with Cold War Kids supporting until Barry got Tendinitis and The Futureheads cancelled.
Now we get the chance to see this small interesting band in a venue which I am starting to love.
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